Websites, Books and Apps—plus a Podcast—for You!

  Editor’s Note: This post—together with the one from Friday, July 8—offers insights into the inaugural ASHA Connect conference. While the Friday post focused on the conference’s health care side; this one focuses on schools. ASHA combined the formerly separate schools and health care/private practice conferences into a single, resource-packed, networking-filled gathering called ASHAConnect. #SLPeeps from Connecticut to Canada to California and beyond enjoyed three days of sessions covering clinical and emerging issues, business management and leadership techniques, swallowing and neurogenic disorders, service delivery, language and literacy interventions, and work with children with special needs. Editors from “The ASHA Leader” sat in on numerous sessions. We also talked to attendees during breaks to find out what they wanted to gain from the conference—as well as what they hope to read in future Leader issues. One request remained consistent: everyone wants resources they can use in practice immediately. Well, here you go. The following list includes just a few of the website, book and app recommendations given by presenters who talked about school-based issues. (Friday’s post by Managing Editor Carol Polovoy, delves into the healthcare and private practice side of things.) Websites TedEd—many presenters referenced this collection of short, engaging educational videos. One SLP especially likes the videos showing how to understand sarcasm and ...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Tags: Speech-Language Pathology Early Intervention Language Disorders Schools Speech Disorders Source Type: blogs